“A real diamond is never perfect.”
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All the Light We Cannot See is a war novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
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“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Variant: Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.
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“Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
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“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
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“What the war did to dreamers.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
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“I am only alive because I have not yet died.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
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“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
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“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
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“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
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“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
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